{"product_id":"the-complete-henry-bech-isbn-9780375411762","title":"The Complete Henry Bech","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes his charming Henry Bech stories—collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince tales of his exploits began appearing in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike’s most endearing confection—a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Henry Bech\u003c\/i\u003e is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer.\"A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In his  extraordinarily productive career, John Updike has given us a multitude of memorable  characters, but none more lovable than the high-minded, mild-mannered, rather hapless  writer Henry Bech.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"One of Updike’s best creations.\" —\u003ci\u003eLife\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bech  is Updike’s alter ego, a mouthpiece for Updike’s often sarcastic, even caustic insight  into writers and the writing life … [His] style is never more jubilantly elaborate  than in a Bech book, and his intelligence never more provocatively displayed.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"As imaginative territory, literary Manhattan has proved irresistible to Updike  the satirist, and he has done it full justice and then some in his volumes of stories  concerning the doings of New York novelist Henry Bech.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A mordantly  comic look at literary life.\" —\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eJOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rabbit at Rest, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303296520421,"sku":"NP9780375411762","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375411762.jpg?v=1767738785","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-complete-henry-bech-isbn-9780375411762","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}